Every Mark on The Page

      As future teachers we will deal with parents and their concerns almost as often as we will deal with the students. The majority of the times their concerns come from the care they have for their child's education. It is our job to work with them to ease those concerns and assure them that their child is on the right path. In younger grades their concerns mostly focus on their child's reading and writing abilities. Their concerns can come form a lack of understanding of the learning process about writing and it is our job to explain it to them.
      We don't expect our students' writing to be perfect, or even close to perfect, at this point in their learning. "Writing is more than legible handwriting and good spelling." This is because they are learning about an entirely new process. Teachers should encourage invented spelling, and their effort because at least they are trying. Correcting every mistake they make will hinder their future writing because they will be insecure about it and only focus on not making mistakes. This is why it is crucial for teachers to work with the parents who have these concerns. By putting their minds at ease they will be able to focus on how well their students are doing instead of the mistakes they make along the way.